I'm officially unemployed!! The union has been useless in this process. I get to write a "letter of reconsideration" to my supervisor's supervisor, but they've also announced it so I'm guessing I know which way that's going. So now the job search begins anew. Meeting with lawyers to see if I have options from that route. They put performance on the termination letter but my civil service file literally has nothing, and I was never given a performance eval despite my requests. Want them to change it to financial layoff which makes a lot more sense. The feds only delivered 70% of the funding they were supposed to, they are replacing me with someone a step below, and the feds want to cancel the grant outright. It makes a ton more sense, then I can easily collect unemployment, and then I don't need to deal with them anymore. Going to be interesting to see where this goes.

Otherwise, just applying to jobs and getting ready to move.

Made bagels yesterday that turned out wonderfully. Making more today. Poppy, plain, and zaatar. I'm excited for the zaatar with cream cheese.